How to Cook a Hippopotamus

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How to Cook a Hippopotamus
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How to Cook a Hippopotamus

Edition year 2006
Binding Paper
Illustrator John Holder
Weight 0.5 Kg
Pages 116
Dimensions 20 × 13.4 cm

Edition details

How to Cook a Hippopotamus: The Folio Book of Quaint and Curious Advice .... All Very Proper to be Read and Kept in Every Family by Ian Pindar. Extensively illustrated in colour and monochrome by John Holder. Bound in illustrated dark purple plasticised paper boards with silver lettering and colour design on front cover. No slipcase. 116pp. 20x13.4cm.

About the book

How to Cook a Hippopotamus: The Folio Book of Quaint and Curious Advice gathers historical recommendations for navigating life's practical and decidedly impractical problems. Selected by Ian Pindar, the extracts range across etiquette, health, cooking, self-improvement and stranger subjects that earlier authorities treated with complete seriousness. Their confident instructions can now seem ingenious, alarming or wonderfully absurd. This illustrated miscellany is less a modern how-to manual than an entertaining encounter with the assumptions of the past, revealing how ideas of useful knowledge change from one generation to another.

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